How Tech Gives is a blog series in partnership with Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Philanthropy Front and Center-San Francisco featuring interviews with Bay Area tech leaders about philanthropy news, trends and opportunities among the tech companies in our region. In this post Juliana Deans, Manager, Corporate Responsibility at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, interviews Patty Nation, Director of Global Corporate and Community Engagement, Xilinx. Xilinx’s award-winning signature community engagement program, the Global Educational Ecosystem, was launched in January 2007 and continues to this day.

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